After figuring out, in Morris' blunt words, "that it didn't work, " he reinvented the company.

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But the Chinese had blunt words about American support for Taiwan.

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Those blunt written words have vanished from that prime Internet position.

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Although most politicians would never be so blunt and indiscriminate to use the words that Trump is using, many may be thinking similar thoughts.

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Over the next couple decades, image and message were simplified into a blunt black-and-white icon of a brutal face with the words Obey Giant emblazoned beneath.

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But the words come from the victory speech of Rob Ford, a blunt, beefy city councillor who on October 25th became mayor of Toronto, Canada's largest city.

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